The STAR Team in Edinburgh
Professor Susan Manning
University of Edinburgh
Professor Manning convenes the STAR Project and is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). She is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and has held the posts of Research Director and Postgraduate Director in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, a member of the Press Committee of Edinburgh University Press, and of the Gifford Lectureships Committee. Her research centres on Scottish and American literary, religious and philosophical relationships, and she has a special interest in the writing of the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence in Europe and America. She is co-editor with Andrew Taylor of the new Edinburgh University Press Series on "Transatlantic Literatures" (2007), and is author of both The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990) and Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002). She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and Symbiosis, A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations.
Susan.Manning@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 4671
Dr Andrew Taylor
University of Edinburgh
Dr Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor with Professor Manning of the new Edinburgh Studies in "Transatlantic Literatures" series, which was published in 2007 by Edinburgh University Press. He specializes in nineteenth-century Anglo-American literary relations; having published his first monograph with Cambridge University Press in 2002, he is now completing a second work examining the transatlantic intellectual and the national imaginary in the United States.
Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 4584
Dr. Aishih Wehbe-Herrera
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Aishih Wehbe-Herrera is the STAR Project's Research Officer. She handles STAR's daily correspondence, organises various seminars, conferences and symposia, maintains the STAR website, and helps to facilitate the growth of the project. She is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where she carries out research on gender and masculinity in Chicana/o, Latina/o and Native-American literature. She also teaches at the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Aisheh.Wehbe@ed.ac.uk
Dr Maria Filippakopoulou
University of Edinburgh
Dr Filippakopoulou assists with the STAR website and teaches on the MSc in Literature and Transatlanticism, as well as the MSc in Translation Studies, at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and is completing a project on 'Transatlantic Poe'. The aim of her work is to produce a book proposal based on her finished thesis on the repositioning of Poe's work in early Anglo-American modernism thanks to the influential translation by Charles Baudelaire.
maria.filippakopoulou@virgin.net
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